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Listen to the latest episodes here or find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. Discover new episodes of our insightful podcast every fortnight. Join host Darren Clark as he welcomes a new passionate guest to discuss all things SEN.
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Chatting with Taimur Khan
Darren speaks to Taimur Khan, founder of SENDSORTA, as he discusses helping parents of children with special educational needs navigate complex systems and access support through simple, step-by-step guidance.
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Chatting with Taimur Khan
Darren speaks to Taimur Khan, founder of SENDSORTA, as he discusses helping parents of children with special educational needs navigate complex systems and access support through simple, step-by-step guidance.
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Chatting with Ginny Bootman and Dr Sarah Moseley
Darren speaks to Ginny Bootman and Dr Sarah Moseley as they share their journeys into special education, shaped by both professional experience and personal struggles with learning. They highlight the importance of lived experience, removing barriers for both pupils and teachers, and empowering SENCOs to focus on classroom impact rather than paperwork.
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Chatting with Helen Ross
Darren Clark is joined by researcher and dyslexia advocate Helen Ross, founder of Helen’s Place. Helen shares her own late dyslexia diagnosis and how feeling “wobbly” at school shaped her mission to challenge traditional measures of academic success. From teaching to completing a PhD she reflects on why our education system must value diverse strengths.
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Dyspraxia
Chatting with Rachael Eyre
Darren speaks to Rachael Eyre, who shares her personal journey of being diagnosed with dyspraxia at age 10 and how it has shaped both her education and career. Rachael reflects on the challenges of school life, the coping strategies and organisation techniques that have helped her thrive, and why greater awareness of dyspraxia is still needed, particularly beyond primary education.
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Dyslexia
Chatting with Debbie Hayes
Darren speaks to dyslexia specialist Debbie Hayes who explores the deep-rooted links between literacy difficulties, school exclusion, and issues later in life, highlighting the critical importance of early identification, understanding co-occurring neurodiversities and challenging societal stigma around dyslexia and dyscalculia.
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Autism and ADHD
Chatting with Gee Eltringham
Darren speaks to founder of The Toolkit Therapists Gee Eltringham as she shares her personal and professional journey into supporting neurodiverse families, exploring the hidden impact of compound trauma, the importance of connection and brain energy and offering practical, science-backed strategies to help parents better understand and support children with autism and ADHD.
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Dyslexia
Chatting with Bertrand Descours
Darren speaks to Bertrand Descours, Co-Founder of Lili for Life, an award-winning innovation that uses personalised flickering light to rebalance how the brain processes visual information in dyslexia, unlocking new possibilities for more comfortable, confident reading at school, work and beyond.
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Dyslexia
Chatting with Katrina Cochrane
Darren Clark speaks to Katrina Cochrane, dyslexia specialist, assessor, and former Head of Education at the British Dyslexia Association, about her journey from English teacher to becoming a leading voice in dyslexia and dyscalculia, driven in part by her own child’s neurodiverse experience. She discusses the importance of better teacher training, early identification, and why dyscalculia deserves greater awareness alongside dyslexia.
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Early Intervention
Chatting with Joe Fernandez
Darren speaks to Joe Fernandez, CEO and founder of Alpaca, a spin-out from Trinity College Dublin focused on identifying children at risk of reading difficulties before they even start reading. Joe shares how early screening, data, and AI can help schools and parents spot potential dyslexia sooner, reducing stress, improving outcomes, and preventing years of struggle.
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Katrina Cochrane“It is so important to share knowledge that I have gained over the last quarter century to help improve awareness of dyslexia further.”
